90-Minute Recording of Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast June 3, 2008 • $229

Events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina have brought business continuity planning to the forefront of organizational practice. Businesses that had plans for serving customers during a disruption survived those events, while those that did not often failed. Every day events such as power loss, fire, or hardware failure require systems for continuing service to keep customers. Today, continuity planning is considered good practice and essential to managing risk. But while continuity plans are common in the business world, few universities are as well prepared.

Distance education units are particularly vulnerable to business disruptions. For one, their reliance on technology to deliver education makes it easier to lose connection with their students. Moreover, distance students can more readily go elsewhere than residential students. When your competition is only mouse clicks away, continuity planning is vital to your organization’s long-term survival. The lack of an institution-wide continuity plan need not deter distance education units from forming their own plans. With proper direction, any distance education unit can develop its own plan.

Knowledge benefits for you:
• Prepare your distance education unit to continue after an emergency
• Understand how an emergency would affect your unit’s operations
• Create a business continuity plan for your unit
• Overcome obstacles to developing and implementing this plan
• Train staff in the use of the plan
• Update the plan to ensure it stays current with technology
• Create emergency response policies

Who will benefit from this seminar:
• Distance education administrators
• Security administrators
• Student service administrators
• Facilities personnel
• Business planning staff

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     John Orlando